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Range Rover LWB

GOODBYE

£137,435 OTR/£144,175 as tested/£1,650 pcm

WHY IT’S HERE

Is the world’s most luxurious SUV actually the world’s best luxury car full stop?

DRIVER

Ollie Marriage

THIS IS THE LIFE. BACK SEAT. MASSAGE ENGAGED. TILTED BACK and stretched out. I might get the laptop out in a bit. Might. Right now I feel a nap coming on. Must be the mysterious smoothness of my professional chauffeur, Colin Hitchcock. No relation, apparently. The other side of the double glazing and electric window blinds Gloucestershire is currently slipping silently by. Next comes… well, I don’t mind really. Colin knows where he’s going. My eyelids really are quite heavy.

Over the past six months I’ve driven 15,000 miles in this LWB Rangey, and until recently I’d not done a single mile in the back. The high-tech thrones have been there, looking

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